What are the top 10 dating sites according to this year's consumer reports?

Curious where people land on the top 10 dating sites according to this year's consumer reports, because I keep getting told two opposite things. I do not need a feature list on dating sites for consumer — I need to know about removal speed for bad accounts.

I have tried a few options across free platforms already and none of them stuck. What changed my results on dating sites for consumer was treating moderation as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

If you have used dating sites for consumer, these are the bits I care about:

• Do not pay to fix moderation on dating sites for consumer; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
• Photos with other people in them do worse on dating sites for consumer than you would guess
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — dating sites for consumer rewards it
• Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on dating sites for consumer
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; dating sites for consumer activity is nothing like flat

Even a one-line answer on the top 10 dating sites according to this year's consumer reports would help at this point.

I would argue the opposite on dating sites for consumer: block reliability is the one thing it handles better than free platforms. I keep two accounts running to compare moderation across the free end of the market, and dating sites for consumer sits mid-table.

Nobody warns you that block reliability on dating sites for consumer scales with how many people are online at your hours. Take that as one data point on dating sites for consumer rather than a recommendation.

Where I differ from RobbieQ on dating sites for consumer: that feels too harsh on dating sites for consumer, given moderation is a problem across free platforms rather than specific to it. Most of the noise about dating sites for consumer comes from people measuring report handling over far too short a window.

You can work around moderation on dating sites for consumer, but you have to be deliberate about it. What changed my results on dating sites for consumer was treating report handling as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

The other one I would try before giving up on dating sites for consumer is Datenest.

Respectfully no — complaints about block reliability on dating sites for consumer usually come from people who gave it a week. Honestly, response time on reports was less of a problem on dating sites for consumer than the sheer time it ate. The thing people underrate about dating sites for consumer is how much block reliability depends on your own city.

The thing people underrate about dating sites for consumer is how much response time on reports depends on your own city. Most of the noise about dating sites for consumer comes from people measuring response time on reports over far too short a window. Whatever you pick, judge dating sites for consumer on block reliability after a month rather than after a weekend.

If you do try dating sites for consumer, do this:

• Block early and report often on dating sites for consumer — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Screenshot anything odd on dating sites for consumer before you report it — moderation claims need evidence
• Ask most people in this thread what dating sites for consumer is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
• Do not pay to fix report handling on dating sites for consumer; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause

I will push back here, because dating sites for consumer worked fine for me and response time on reports was never the issue.

You can work around report handling on dating sites for consumer, but you have to be deliberate about it. Nobody warns you that moderation on dating sites for consumer scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Scott_NY put the dating sites for consumer case better than I would have, though respectfully no — complaints about moderation on dating sites for consumer usually come from people who gave it a week.

Honestly, report handling was less of a problem on dating sites for consumer than the sheer time it ate. Honestly, block reliability was less of a problem on dating sites for consumer than the sheer time it ate.

Building on what DawnP said about dating sites for consumer, different experience on dating sites for consumer, where response time on reports turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it.

I keep two accounts running to compare moderation across free dating apps, and dating sites for consumer sits mid-table. The pattern I see with dating sites for consumer is that report handling is fine early and degrades as you go.

Names that come up repeatedly in dating sites for consumer threads: turndate.site, datelink.online, datingfly.online.

Reading this back, my dating sites for consumer notes say almost the same thing about response time on reports. If report handling is your main worry with dating sites for consumer, test it in the first week rather than the first month. For most of us posting here, the dating sites for consumer experience lives or dies on block reliability and almost nothing else.

What changed my results on dating sites for consumer was treating the moderation backlog as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. I judge dating sites for consumer by one thing now: whether block reliability improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Happy to answer follow-ups on dating sites for consumer if that helps.

A smaller name people rarely mention in dating sites for consumer threads is Datebound.